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IDYLL 7 AND THE HYMN TO HERMES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2015

Elia R. Rudoni
Elia R. Rudoni*
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*Email: er2598@columbia.edu
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Abstract

Simichidas' self-presentation as a poet at Theocritus 7.37 is modelled on Apollo's self-presentation as a musician at Homeric Hymn to Hermes 450. Through this allusion, in his own Dichterweihe as a bucolic poet Simichidas hints at the invention of the bucolic genre by Hermes. The reference is crafted so as to point self-reflexively to its status as reference; in particular, the expression καὶ γὰρ ἐγώ (‘I too’) of line 37 functions as an intertextual signpost. If Simichidas is a literary projection of Theocritus, the allusion has important implications for our understanding of his self-positioning within the poetical tradition.

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The Cambridge Classical Journal , Volume 61 , December 2015 , pp. 99 - 110
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2015. Published by Cambridge University Press 

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